> Why the #$%* can't the font installation and setup be a bit easier? I would not have put it so nicely! ;)
I finally got my fonts looking better on one of my machines that's been driving me NUTS for about a year (debian-user is littered with my pleas for help with fonts). This does *NOT* mean I have it setup correctly or that I understand things much better now... I'm running Sid and it was mostly mozilla that was the problem with ugly fonts. I'm mostly in either mozilla or xterm. Xterm fonts have always been fine, although they are not anti-aliased. I finally got things acceptable in mozilla by really trimming down my "Files" section: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection And then in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> I still don't understand fontconfig. I thought fontconfig was used for selecting the best font and then X still rendered them and therefore the font paths listed in fonts.conf needed to also be in XF86Config-4. But that does not seem to be the case. I have a huge font selection list in Mozilla and OpenOffice. xlsfonts doesn't show many fonts $ xlsfonts | wc -l 1257 I think I could add more paths to my "Files" section, but my thinking is to use the minimum required. $ locate fonts.dir | wc -l 52 I suppose a number of those are empty (or maybe symlinks so duplicates). I can add this line FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" and I get more fonts listed in xlsfonts (another 550 fonts), but I don't seen any difference in any of my applications when I do that. Oh: > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7101" # local font server > FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font serveri I also used to have "unix/:7100" which, as far as I can tell, just duplicated the fonts I have listed above (indeed adding the font server in just exactly doubled the number of fonts reported from xlsfonts). So I see no use for the xfs font server at all and thus removed it. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]